Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to some " in BNC.

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1 What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it .
2 They are thus to some extent limited in where they can invest , as we discuss further in chapter 6 .
3 The different methods do not react to the same types of buried feature , and are thus to some extent complementary .
4 Bear in mind how things are still to some extent put into newspapers these days .
5 Although the slimmer and the anorexic are both to some extent governed by anxiety , there is an important difference between them .
6 But semantically innocuous re-orderings are also to some extent resisted :
7 But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast .
8 We 've been back to some of the places in the film to see what changes there 've been and to talk to some of the people who were in the original film .
9 We 've been back to some of the houses featured in the original film to see how they 've changed .
10 There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power .
11 On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them .
12 The pressure will be off to some extent and we can concentrate on winning .
13 Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems .
14 I do n't know if it 's sex , or fear that I 'm up to some trick .
15 They looked both sly and exhilarated , as though they were off to some party that would end in tears .
16 Judgements about the acceptability of a given ranking were clearly to some degree subjective , but the computer provided a fast and accurate analysis of the effects of different options .
17 In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances .
18 In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances .
19 Techniques were initially to some extent specific to particular branches of geomorphology but increasingly were found to have much in common and this trend should be further intensified as the potential of environmental monitoring by remote sensing becomes even more widely available and fully utilizes the opportunities offered by developments in microelectronics .
20 Both objectives 3 and 5 were therefore to some extent achieved through the committee structure .
21 ’ The reason this club is £1.3 million in debt is down to some bad , bad financial decisions . ’
22 The reason this club is £1.3million in debt is down to some bad , bad financial decisions . ’
23 Beccaria 's appearance of humanity is perhaps to some extent due to the fact that , unlike Bentham , he often glossed over the darker implications of his arguments .
24 Secondly , the model implies that curriculum planning is always to some extent a contingent matter , in which there will be few across-the-board answers .
25 However , the situation is always to some extent fluid , and the dimensions of the disciplinary space may change , expanding here or contracting there , sometimes under pressure from a contiguous discipline .
26 It is probable that deliberate equivocation in respect of the intended sense of word forms is always to some extent odd .
27 Therefore , whereas the market participation of asset owners is always to some extent protected ( by the peculiar qualities of the assets possessed ) , the market activity of the entrepreneur is never protected in any way .
28 The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs .
29 That is still to some extent , erm though less true , I daresay , than it once was , but the mystique , I think , survives , does it not , Anne will tell us , in Whitehall , that these people bring erm who , who are essentially amateurs in matters of political science , sociology , international relations and diplomacy , bring a gentleman amateur 's omnicompetent wisdom .
30 We are considering what more we can do and it is up to some other donors to do likewise .
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